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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.
In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.
An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.
Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.
I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.
Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll? I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.
If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.
Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.
For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.
Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.
I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of the people.
O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.
I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.
Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.
Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.
... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music.
What reason has one for existing other than to be involved with what is actually being created in your particular time?
Jimi Hendrix could play better than our best guys and he did it while he was dancing while being completely outrageous.
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I've heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn't swinging.
I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.
Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.
When stuff gets hard, and you're feeling real down about everything or in a cark space, a song can bring you out of it.
Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.
If you will show me the songs which a people or a community sing, then I will tell you the character of that community.
Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by.
In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.
I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight.
Music transcends language. BTS communicates with our fans by staying true to ourselves and believing in music every day.
Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through.
I'm on a diet. It's very strict: all hot dogs. Just sausages, constantly. It's working out - I've gained fifteen pounds!
English is like music. The English language is really fit for singing. The notes match the feelings, and it makes sense.
I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown.
If there are only you and the music in the room, it means that there are two persons in the room! Music is a live being!
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
I can't understand guys who just have to have your autograph. What do you do when you get home, take it out & look at it?
We deliver many different messages to people of our generation. I want them to get good energy by listening to BTS music.
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.
I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.
All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.
Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
O, pleasant is the welcome kiss When day's dull round is o'er; And sweet the music of the step That meets us at the door.
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.